Porgy & Bess Revisited, subtitled Played by a Very Unusual Cast, is an album of jazz interpretations of songs from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess performed by cornetist Rex Stewart and trumpeter Cootie Williams, with saxophonists Hilton Jefferson and Pinky Williams and trombonist Lawrence Brown, that was recorded in late 1958 and released on the Warner Bros. label.

Scott Yanow of AllMusic states, "The two lead characters are played instrumentally by swing all-stars. Cornetist Rex Stewart portrays Sportin' Life, trumpeter Cootie Williams (who emerges as the main star) is Porgy, altoist Hilton Jefferson is Bess and trombonist Lawrence Brown is both Serena and Clara. Somehow it all works. Jim Timmens' arrangements for the big band keeps the momentum going, making this a surprisingly successful effort" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnpgFEPVgNM&list=RDNnpgFEPVgNM&start_radio=1

#RexStewart #CootieWilliams #PorgyAndBess #Gershwin #Jazz #Music

Steven Spielberg Says He Scrapped A Movie About ‘Porgy And Bess’ That Would Have Starred Colman Domingo: “I Decided Not To Continue Making It”
#News #ColmanDomingo #DisclosureDay #Porgyandbess #StevenSpielberg

https://deadline.com/2026/06/steven-spielberg-porgy-and-bess-movie-colman-domingo-1236955776/

Sinfonieorchester Basel: „Porgy and Bess“ – Konzertfassung
Marco Stücklin

„Summertime“, „I got plenty of nuttin“, die großen Hits aus George Gershwin‘s Oper PORGY AND BESS, wer kennt sie nicht? Nun hat das Sinfonieorchester Basel die 80 Minuten dauernde Konzertfassung von Wayne Marshall mit den Highlights dieser Oper aufgeführt. Wegen der Aufführungsrechte war dies nur mit besonderer Bewilligung möglich. (Rezension der Aufführung v. 14. April 2026 im Stadtcasino Basel) […]

https://opernmagazin.de/sinfonieorchester-basel-porgy-and-bess-konzertfassung/

#NinaSimone #EdSullivan #PorgyAndBess

Just the lyrics here, but look for her version on line via Ed Sullivan Show

I loves you, Porgy
Don't let him take me
Don't let him handle me and drive me mad
If you can keep me, I wanna stay here
With you forever and I'll be glad
Yes I loves you, Porgy
Don't let him take me
Don't let him handle me with his hot hands
If you can keep me I wants to stay here
With you forever, I've got my man
I loves you, Porgy
Don't let him take me
Don't let him handle me and drive me mad
If you can keep me, I wanna stay here
With you forever, I've got my man
Someday I know he's coming to call me
He's going to handle me and hold me
So, it's going to be like dying, Porgy
When he calls me
But when he comes I know, I'll have to go
I loves you, Porgy
Don't let him take me
Honey, don't let him handle me and drive me mad
If you can keep me, I wanna stay here
With you forever, I've got my man

Quentin Tarantino’s Vista Theatre to Screen the Holy Grail of 35mm Prints with Long-Suppressed ‘Porgy and Bess’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/porgy-and-bess-quentin-tarantino-vista-theatre-1235184430/

Quentin Tarantino’s Vista Theater to Screen the Holy Grail of 35mm Prints with Long-Suppressed ‘Porgy and Bess’
#IndieWire #GeneralNews #News #Film #OttoPreminger #PorgyandBess #QuentinTarantino #VistaTheater

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/porgy-and-bess-quentin-tarantino-vista-theatre-1235184430/

Porgy And Bess by Diahann Carroll And The André Previn Trio, released on United Artists in 1959.

Soho The Dog wrote:

Diahann Carroll had played Clara in Goldwyn’s Porgy but, at Goldwyn’s behest, her singing was dubbed by soprano Loulie Jean Norman, which must have been a real insult to a singer of Carroll’s caliber. As Previn scholar Frédéric Döhl has noted, Goldwyn’s reverence for the material, both asserted from within and imposed from without, led him to fill the soundtrack with classical singers in order, as Döhl puts it, to “orient the aesthetic emphasis of the sound towards opera.” That might be why Carroll and producer Jack Lewis wanted to tilt away from the source toward jazz. With Previn’s trio... it’s much as one might imagine a “modern jazz interpretations of” Porgy and Bess...

https://www.sohothedog.com/previnjazz/1959-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAc9AMRtEw&list=RDaWAc9AMRtEw&start_radio=1

#PorgyAndBess #DiahannCarroll #AndréPrevin #JazzVocal #Jazz #Music #Gershwin